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The US Defence Department and the Nigerien Ministry of National Defence have reportedly reached an agreement for the withdrawal of US military forces from Niger by September 15, as per a CNN report.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Feb. 10 condemned the attack in Nigeria's northeastern Borno region that killed at least 30 people.

"We are saddened by the terrorist attack that took place in Nigeria's Borno state on Feb. 9 which claimed many lives and left several people injured," the ministry said in a statement.

A group of Nigerian migrants on Sept. 21 made a press statement in Istanbul's famous Istiklal Avenue to draw attention to human rights violations in their home country's Biafra region.

The Nigerian army has freed 178 people being held hostage by Boko Haram including more than 100 children, it said late on August 2, following a series of deadly attacks by the jihadists in the country's restive northeast.

Nigerian authorities liberated 234 women and children held by Boko Haram jihadists in the northeastern parts of the country, according to a Nigerian armed forces announcement.

These hostages follow the liberation of 500 more hostages in the past few days.

Boko Haram fighters who were in full retreat after a Nigerian army attack killed at least 21 people, today, in attacks against a village in the north of Nigeria. This village is very close to the school which the rebels had used to kidnap 200 students last year, according to a Nigerian armed forces source. Other sources speak of at least 30 villagers killed during the raid

At least 21 people were killed in two separate Boko Haram attacks on villages near the key city of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, a community leader and a witness said on Feb. 13.
      
"They (Boko Haram) killed 12 people in Akida village and nine others in Mbuta village during a raid," said community leader Mustapha Abbagini.